Improvement in molded carriage-tops



SWETT .& LOGKEY'. Carriage Top.

No. 109,272. Patented 110V. 15, 1870..

I bindet nes anni @da GREENLEAF L. SWETT AND JOSEPH P. LOOKEY, OF LEOhIINSK'IER,v MAS- SACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 109,272, dated November 15, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOLDED CARRIAGE-TOPS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Nature and Object of thc Invention.. The nature of our invention consists in making, as

a new article of manufacture, a molded 'carriage-top,

said top being made of a fibrous .material partaking of the nature of papier-mache, leather, board, 85e., and of such incuess that it may retain the form into which it is molded.

Description of the Drawing.

Figure l shows, in perspective, our improved carj ringe-top, as it appears attached to bows.

Figure 2 shows a cross-section of the same. Figure 3 represents a longitudinal section of the same.

General Description.

The' part A, the formation and adjustment of which constitute my invention, is made of paper, papierrmache, leather, board, or of the class of fabrics which is formed substantially aspaper, the same being molded when in a pliable condition and allowed to set into a suiiiciently rigid condition to fully retain'its shape when used yas a carriage-top.

It is made water-proof either by being covered with some thin fabric or by oils and vamishes. v The supporting-frame B O D maybe made as shown in the drawing, or in any similar style.

The number of bows may be varied, two being sufficient for an ordinary carriage.

' The molded top is made sufficiently strong to support itself without the aid of truss or braces.

The advantages that We claim for fabrics of a paper nature over those of-a gummy nature are that gums and gotta-percheJ can only be made rigid by the very expensive process of vulcaniziug, and that the first cost of the raw material, to say nothing of the process'of s working, is so' great as to forbid its use for our purpose.

Claim.

We claim- As an article of manufacture, a molded carriagetop, ,formed of the material and adapted to use as described, and for the purpose set forth.

GREENLEAF L. SWETT. JOSEPH P. LOGKEY.

Witnesses:

FRANK G. PARKER, E. A. NmKnnsoN. 

